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When I used to have false memories, they were often in the third person. I believe this is because they are like an imagined scenerio and not a memory of an experience. If that makes sense. Sorry if that is not concise.
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I get false memories in first and third person at times and it bugs me because usually when they are in third person I can easily be like okqy cool its not real but then when they pop out in first person and I know they’re not real it makes me doubt everything and then I’m like oh my goodness how do I distinguish
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@Ella_O Yes, that can be very challenging. Just remember that OCD will find ways to keep you afraid. Any time I find a perspective that makes me feel more comfortable, OCD says "oh yeah?" and totally messes with my head. The hardest, but most effective, approach is to live in discomfort and accept uncertainty. As awful as that sounds. Good luck. OCD is a monster
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@mjl0407 Yes like recently I got over my false memory and I was doing great and still am but my ocd was like wait hold up? What if when you experience your false memories in first person it’s because it’s true and I was like no it’s not whether I experience them in first or third they are not true I even have proof and my ocd was like well what if you’re lying to yourself and because of this you won’t get into Heaven and I’m just sitting there like dude really ??♀️
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@Ella_O Yeah, OCD is a real A-hole sometimes. I hope you feel better soon. Thanks for reaching out and sharing.
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@mjl0407 Thank you and thank you so much for sharing aswell and the support
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YES OMG ALL THE TIME!! My hocd thoughts are actually usually from third person perspective lmfao how strange :/ I don’t think it means anything tho but I’m not sure ?
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Most of the time I get them in third person but sometimes I get them in first person and when I get them in first person it scares me because it makes it hard to realize its not true theres been first person false memories that I have had that felt so real so I’d ask my family member if I had done such thing and they tell me no but because they are in first person I have my doubts
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@Ella_O ahhh damn , well I’d say don’t ask your family/friends for any reassurance because that just reinforces the thoughts and makes them stronger. I had false memories bother me for a few months last year, but the way I beat it was that I learnt to trust myself and know what I would and wouldn’t do if that makes sense. So say if you had a false memory about hurting someone, just think to yourself “would I REALLY do that?”. Hopefully this made sense and helps Lol, good luck :)
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@A_123 Well I no longer ask my family and I believe in myself now and I don’t doubt but it’s the religion that comes in and then tries to make me doubt everything and then I remember it didn’t happen so theres no reason to doubt
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What do you mean by first person and third person? Could you give an example?
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Basically an intrusive thought pops out where you can see yourself doing it through your eyes as in first person and then third person as in you can look at yourself doing the action from someone elses eyes
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@Ella_O ah then yes, i experience both.
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@empathmind It honestly feels nice to know I’m not the only one who experiences these intrusive thoughts/false memories in first and third person I know some people just experience them in third person where as people like us experience them in first and third and honestly I feel less alone on this thank you
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My intrusive thoughts make me question whether or not I've actually already done them or not ... If that makes sense , for example I will see a vivid video in my mind which is an intrusive thought but It makes me question whether or not it was an intrusive thought or a memory and I actually did whatever it was .... It's terrifying.
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I totally feel you on that I used to have terrible intrusive thoughts that turned into false memories so I would seek reasurance non stop and it would always turn out to be that my false memory was in fact false but then the intrusive thought would get even more detailed
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A little part of your brain goes "what if it's not the ocd this time" .... And so the cycle continues ... I literally have seconds or minutes where I'm like "none of this is even real" but I guess that's half the battle
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We can get through this its really hard but we can
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I’m really looking for a buddy that has harm OCD/pure OCD. Someone to message about the condition. Would you be interested, I really feel helping someone else in my shoes would be so beneficial for both parties.
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Honestly same I want a group of friends who have the same ocd as me so we can all communicate with one another and help eachother
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@Ella_O What kind of OCD do you have Ella?
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@Cal2019 I have Pure O Harm OCD and False Memory OCD along with intrusive thoughts and I used to have POCD but I got over it
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@Cal2019 What type ocd do you have?
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Pure O, Harm OCD, and False Memory all triggered by intrusive thoughts. How old are you and what country are you from. I would love to speak to someone properly about what I’ve experienced to listen personally to what other people have to.
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I’m 20 and I’m from CA
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What about yourself
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I’m 20 from the UK. Do you have any social media that’s convenient to speak on. I promise I’m genuine I absolutely just want to go through it all with somebody.
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Of course do you have a twitter?
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That’s probably the only one I don’t have. I have snapchat, Instagram, Facebook ?
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If anything snapchat is fine I don’t have an instagram nor facebook but I have snapchat
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my snapchat is yaboicalsto if you want to add me. :)
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Will be adding right now
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I have been ruminating on why I have been having intrusive thoughts on a specific topic. Anyone know why? Where do they come from? It freaks me out and makes me think that it came from a real memory (I struggle with false memory OCD)
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Does anyone else’s false memory intrusive thoughts of what could have happened feel very, very real?
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So. I was in a traumatic relationship. for a long time. it was filled with gaslighting, manipulation, abuse, cheating ect. I would OBSESS over finding out where they were, what they were doing, who they were talking too. but I couldn’t leave. I tried so hard but I never could. they would call me names, physically hurt me, throw things, break things. because I would question them all the time. but I just couldn’t leave. no matter what I knew. they would manipulate me. I fell for their childhood trauma. it’s like I lost all logic. but I also feel like I have a pretty good memory with memories. not all the way, but remembering a lot of the traumatic things. especially now that I’m no longer with them. I keep remembering things that’s happened. even from my childhood. one time way before I even started dating this person, I had an intrusive thought about a friend of mine. that was with me. and I freaked out. I thought I had acted on the intrusive thought the next day. I asked my friend for confirmation but they said nothing happened. but the memories about it feel SO REAL. so VIVID. but they swore that nothing happened and they had no idea what I was talking about. I’ve struggled with intrusive thoughts for my whole life. so fast forward to now, that ‘false memory’ from my friend randomly popped up and I started obsessing about it, and my childhood ‘memories’ that have popped up. and then I was reading an article of someone doing something horrible, and then it sounded ‘familiar’ and so then I’ve created this whole memory of me doing something similar to the article involving my partner doing it also. the memory keeps adding new things and conversations around it. when it involves an actual real memory. but it’s like it’s been twisted from what I remembered before. I also suffer from bad anxiety. I’ve stalked pictures. my search history to figure out what I was doing that say when the real event happened. and I’ve found some things but I can’t look through my texts because I got a new phone. it has been hounding me for months. MONTHS. trying to figure out if this new ‘memory’ is real or not. if it’s been fabricated by an intrusive thought from reading the article and thinking ‘what if’ or if it actually happened and because I’m no longer in this relationship it’s a ‘repressed memory’ but the thing is I have horrible horrible anxiety and I don’t think I could have gone this long knowingly that that happened without remembering it until now. because I remember a lot of the horrible things that they did. this ‘memory’ is fuzzy, but it brings me horrible anxiety when I think of it, like I feel like it happened. but I also feel like it didn’t happen. because I know I would never do anything like that. but WHAT IF I DID, because I was manipulated. idk. is this a false memory. I really need help. because it’s been debilitating. that relationship was really traumatic. and I got manipulated into a lot of things. but I wouldn’t have just went forward knowing that that happened??? there’s no way I could have just forgotten it. because before when I would think about that night it was different, until now. but what if I just made myself forget what truly happened?? I’m a pretty self aware individual, but somehow that relationship really REALLY put me into a trance somehow where I allowed things that I have no idea how I would even allow because before I met that person I would have never allowed someone to cheat on my constantly or talk to me the way they did. or allow abuse. like I don’t understand it.
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